2018
Integrating Authentic Scientific Research in a Conservation Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience, Amanda E. Sorensen, Lucia Corral, Jenny M. Dauer, and Joseph J. Fontaine
The Distribution and Role of Functional Abundance in Cross‐Scale Resilience, Shana M. Sundstrom, David G. Angeler, Chris Barichievy, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond Garmestani, Lance Gunderson, Melinda Knutson, Kirsty L. Nash, Trisha Spanbauer, Craig Stow, and Craig R. Allen
Anthropogenic Hydrological Cycle Disturbance at a Regional Scale: State-Wide Evapotranspiration Trends (1979-2015) Across Nebraska, USA, Jozsef Szilagyi
Evapotranspiration Trends (1979-2015) in the Central Valley of California, USA: Contrasting Tendencies During 1981-2007, Jozsef Szilagyi and Janos Jozsa
Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains, Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown, Tom Loveland, Rezaul Mamood, and Norman Bliss
The Perpetual State of Emergency That Sacrifices Protected Areas in a Changing Climate, Dirac Twidwell, Carissa L. Wonkka, Christine H. Bielski, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Jacob Drozda, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Julia Johnson, Larkin A. Powell, and Caleb P. Roberts
A Framework for Tracing Social–Ecological Trajectories and Traps in Intensive Agricultural Landscapes, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Gengxin Ou, and Nancy Shank
Using art and story to explore how primary school students in rural Tanzania understand planetary health: a qualitative analysis, Elizabeth VanWormer, Jesca Mlawa, Elizabeth Komba, Christopher Gustafson, Hilda Mrema, and Jenny M. Dauer
Cosmic ray neutrons provide an innovative technique for estimating intermediate scale soil moisture, Thigesh Vather, Colin Everson, Michael Mengistu, and Trenton E. Franz
Improving the calibration of silicon photodiode pyranometers, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, Kenneth Hubbard, Mark A. Mesarch, and Glen Roebke
The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship: an experimental test in a prairie grassland, Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Philip A. Townsend, and Arthur I. Zygielbaum
The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship: an experimental test in a prairie grassland, Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Philip A. Townsend, and Arthur I. Zygielbaum
Dominant plant species shape soil bacterial community in semiarid sandy land of northern China, Shaokun Wang, Xiaoan Zuo, Xueyong Zhao, Tala Awada, Yongqing Luo, Yuqiang Li, and Hao Qu
Assessing Decadal Trends of a Nitrate-Contaminated Shallow Aquifer in Western Nebraska Using Groundwater Isotopes, Age-Dating, and Monitoring, Martin J. Wells, Troy E. Gilmore, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Daniel D. Snow, and Steven S. Sibray
Spring warming in Yukon mountains is not amplified by the snow albedo feedback, Scott N. Williamson, Faron S. Anslow, Garry K. C. Clarke, John A. Gamon, Alexander H. Jarosch, and David S. Hik
Field-scale mapping of evaporative stress indicators of crop yield: An application over Mead, NE, USA, Yang Yang, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, Brian D. Wardlow, Christopher R. Hain, Jason A. Otkin, Joseph Alfieri, Yun Yang, Liang Sun, and Wayne Dulaney
2017
Mesoscale Modeling of the Meteorological Impacts of Irrigation during the 2012 Central Plains Drought, Clint Aegerter, Jun Wang, Cui Ge, Suat Irmak, Robert Oglesby, Brian D. Wardlow, Haishun Yang, Jingshen You, and Martha Shulski
A Quantitative Framework for Assessing Ecological Resilience, Didier L. Baho, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond Garmestani, Hannah Fried-Petersen, Sophia E. Renes, Lance Gunderson, and David G. Angeler
Potential of Windbreak Trees to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Agricultural Operations in the US, William Ballesteros Possu, James R. Brandle, and Michele Schoeneberger
Ungulate predation and ecological roles of wolves and coyotes in eastern North America, John F. Benson, Karen M. Loveless, Linda Y. Rutledge, and Brent R. Patterson
Northern Bobwhite Nest Site Selection in Field Borders, Danielle J. Berger, Jessica N. Piispanen, Tim F. Ginnett, and Jason D. Riddle
Assessment of a channel catfish population in a large open river system, A. J. Blank, M. J. Hamel, Jonathan J. Spurgeon, and Mark A. Pegg
Exploring Elementary Students’ Scientific Knowledge of Agriculture Using Evidence-Centered Design, Molly Brandt, Cory Forbes, and Jenny Keshwani
Plant uptake and stream chemistry set global bounds on nitrogen gas emissions from humid tropical forests, E.N.J. Brookshire, S. Gerber, W. Greene, R.A. Jones, and Steven A. Thomas
Resilience in Ecotoxicology: Toward a Multiple Equilibrium Concept, Mirco Bundschuh, Ralf Schulz, Ralf B. Schäfer, Craig R. Allen, and David G. Angeler
Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century, Shelley D. Crausbay, Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter, Molly S. Cross, Kimberly R. Hall, Deborah J. Bathke, Julio L. Betancourt, Steve Colt, Amanda E. Cravens, Melinda S. Dalton, Jason B. Dunham, Lauren E. Hay, Michael J. Hayes, Jamie McEvoy, Chad A. McNutt, Max A. Moritz, Keith H. Nislow, Nejem Raheem, and Todd Sanford
Geological Principles Illustrated in the Art along the Antelope Valley Hiker/Biker Trail – The BIG X (Salt Creek Roadway/Antelope Valley Parkway) South to Q Street, Robert Diffendal, Jr.
Great Plains Geology: A Personal Journey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Geology: My Personal Journey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Nebraska, USA: Wonderful Fossils, Natural History Museums and Public Art Depicting Fossils, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Landscape Features Affecting Northern Bobwhite Predator-Specific Nest Failures in Southeastern USA, Susan Ellis-Felege, Shannon E. Albeke, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Michael J. Conroy, D. Clay Sisson, William E. Palmer, and John P. Carroll
Hydraulics Near Unscreened Diversion Pipes in Open Channels: Large Flume Experiments, Ali Ercan, M. Levent Kavvas, Kara Carr, Zachary Hockett, Houssein Bandeh, Timothy D. Mussen, Dennis E. Cocherell, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Joseph J. Cech Jr., and Nann A. Fangue
Reproductive ecology of interior least tern and piping plover in relation to Platte River hydrology and sandbar dynamics, Jason M. Farnsworth, David M. Baasch, Chadwin B. Smith, and Kevin L. Werbylo
Long-term analysis of the asynchronicity between temperature and precipitation maxima in the United States Great Plains, Paul Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, and Xiangming Xiao
Measuring Farmer Conservation Behaviors: Challenges and Best Practices, Kristin Floress, Adam Reimer, Aaron Thompson, Mark Burbach, Cody Knutson, Linda Prokopy, Marc Ribaudo, and Jessica Ulrich-Schad
Feasibility analysis of using inverse modeling for estimating field-scale evapotranspiration in maize and soybean fields from soil water content monitoring networks, Foad Foolad, Trenton E. Franz, Teijun Wang, Justin Gibson, Ayse Kilie, Richard Allen, and Andrew E. Suyker
Feasibility Analysis of Using Inverse Modeling for Estimating Field-Scale Evapotranspiration in Maize and Soybean Fields from Soil Water Content Monitoring Networks, Foad Foolad, Trenton E. Franz, Tiejun Wang, Justin Gibson, Ayse Kilic, Richard Allen, and Andrew Suyker
Hiring Leaders: Inference and Disagreement About the Best Person for the Job, Konstantinos Giannakas, Murray Fulton, and Tala Awada
A framework for pollination systems thinking and conservation, Doug Golick, Jenny Dauer, Louise Lynch, and Erin Ingram
Nest site selection and nest survival of Greater Prairie-Chickens near a wind energy facility, Jocelyn Olney Harrison, Mary B. Brown, Larkin A. Powell, Walter H. Schacht, and Jennifer A. Smith
The roles of ecology, behavior and effective population size in the evolution of a community., C.M. Hung, S. Drovetski, and R. M. Zink
Modeling with a Conceptual representation: is it necessary? does it Work?, Rebecca C. Jordan, Steven Gray, Amanda E. Sorensen, Samantha Pasewark, Suparna Sinha, and Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Modeling with a Conceptual representation: is it necessary? does it Work?, Rebecca C. Jordan, Steven Gray, Amanda E. Sorensen, Samantha Pasewark, Suparna Sinha, and Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Temporal Migration Shifts in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population of Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) Across North America, Joel G. Jorgensen and Mary Bomberger Brown
Common Carp Disrupt Ecosystem Structure and Function Through Middle-out Effects, Mark A. Kaemingk, Jeffrey C. Jolley, Craig P. Paukert, David W. Willis, Kjetil Henderson, Richard S. Holland, Greg A. Wanner, and Mark L. Lindvall
Culturally induced range infilling of eastern redcedar: a problem in ecology, an ecological problem, or both?, Aubrey Streit Krug, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, and Dirac L. Twidwell Jr
Assessment of irrigation physics in a land surface modeling framework using non-traditional and human-practice datasets, Paticia M. Lawston, Joseph A. Santanello Jr., Trenton E. Franz, and Matthew Rodell
The 5E Learning Cycle: What's the Story?, Kelsey Lipsitz, Dante Cisterna, and Deborah Hanuscin
Population Growth and Mortality Sources of the Black Bear Population in Northern Georgia, Andrew R. Little, Adam Hammond, James A. Martin, Kristina L. Johannsen, and Karl V. Miller
The impact of water quality in Narragansett Bay on housing prices, Tingting Liu, James J. Opaluch, and Emi Uchida
The diffeology of Milnor's classifying space, Jean-Pierre Magnot and Jordan Watts
Droughts of the twentieth and early twenty first centuries: Influences on the production of beef and Forage in Kentucky, USA, Rezaul Mahmood
Mesonets: Meso-scale weather and climate observations for the U.S., Rezaul Mahmood
Recent Land Cover Changes and Sensitivity of the Model Simulations to Various Land Cover Datasets for China, Rezaul Mahmood
The future of Earth observation in hydrology, Matthew F. McCabe, Matthew Rodell, Douglas E. Alsdorf, Remko Uijlenhoet, Wolfgang Wagner, Arko Lucieer, Rasmus Houborg, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Trenton E. Franz, Jiancheng Shi, Huilin Gao, and Eric F. Wood
Carbon Flux Phenology from the Sky: Evaluation for Maize and Soybean, Alexandria G. McCombs, Cuizhen Wang, Ankur Desai, Andrew E. Suyker, and Sebastien C. Bird
Multi-Scale Habitat Selection by Cow Moose (Alces alces) at Calving Sites in Central Ontario, A.A.D. McLaren, J. F. Benson, and B.R. Patterson
Applying Topographic Classification, Based on the Hydrological Process, to Design Habitat Linkages for Climate Change, Yongwon Mo, Dong Kun Lee, Keunyea Song, Ho Gul Kim, and Soo Jin Park
Ecophysiological responses of native invasive woody Juniperus virginiana L. to resource availability and stand characteristics in the semiarid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills, Joseph Msanne, Tala Awada, N. M. Bryan, Walter H. Schacht, Rhae A. Drijber, Y. Li, X. Zhou, Jane A. Okalebo, David A. Wedin, James R. Brandle, and J. Hiller
How do undergraduate STEM mentors reflect upon their mentoring experiences in an outreach program engaging K-8 youth?, Kari Nelson, Jaime Sabel, Cory Forbes, Neal Grandgenett, William Tapprich, and Christine E. Cutucache
Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents, B. C. Norman, M. R. Whiles, S. M. Collins, A. S. Flecker, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, L. R. Ashkenas, W. B. Bowden, C. L. Crenshaw, T. Crowl, W. K. Dodds, R. O. Hall, R. El-Sabaawi, N. A. Griffiths, E. Marti, W. H. McDowell, S. D. Peterson, H. M. Rantala, T. Riis, K. S. Simon, J. L. Tank, S. A. Thomas, D. von Schiller, and J. R. Webster
Can an immersion exhibit inspire connection to nature and environmentally responsible behavior?, Lisa Pennisi, N. Qwynne Lackey, and Stephen M. Holland
Scaling, similarity, and the fourth paradigm for hydrology, Chirsta D. Peters-Lidard, Martyn Clark, Luis Samaniego, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Tim van Emmerik, Remko Uijlenhoet, Kevin Achieng, Trenton E. Franz, and Ross Woods
Tolerance: the forgotten child of plant resistance, Robert K. D. Peterson, Andrea C. Varella, and Leon G. Higley
Unusual aerobic performance at high temperatures in juvenile Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Dennis E. Cocherell, Sarah E. Baird, Trinh X. Nguyen, Valentina Cabrera-Stagno, Anthony P. Farrell, and Nann A. Fangue
BOOK REVIEW: Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens, edited by David A. Haukos and Clint W. Boal. 2016., Larkin Powell
Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens, Larkin A. Powell
Complex variation in habitat selection strategies among individuals driven by extrinsic factors, Edward J. Raynor, Hawthorne L. Beyer, John M. Briggs, and Anthony Joern
Location matters: evaluating Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) boom chorus propagation, Edward J. Raynor, Cara E. Whalen, Mary Bomberger Brown, and Larkin A. Powell
Introductory Biology Students’ Use of Enhanced Answer Keys and Reflection Questions to Engage in Metacognition and Enhance Understanding, Jaime L. Sabel, Joseph T. Dauer, and Cory T. Forbes
Undergraduate Students Scientifically-Informed Decision-Making about Socio-Hydrological Issues, Jaime L. Sabel, Tina Vo, Ashley Alred, Jenny M. Dauer, and Cory Forbes
Enhancing Dynamical Seasonal Predictions through Objective Regionalization, Saleh Satti, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Hamaba S. Babr, and Tsegaye Tadesse
Predation risk: a potential mechanism for effects of a wind energy facility on Greater Prairie-Chicken survival, Jennifer A. Smith, Mary B. Brown, J.O. Harrison, and Larkin A. Powell
Foliar Reflectance and Biochemistry, 5 Data Sets, A. Solovchenko, A. Gitelson, O. Chivkunova, and M. Merzlyak
Reframing communication about Zika and mosquitoes to increase disease prevention behavior, Amanda E. Sorensen, Rebecca C. Jordan, and Shannon LaDeau
Parallel Seasonal Patterns of Photosynthesis, Fluorescence, and Reflectance Indices in Boreal Trees, Kyle R. Springer, Ran Wang, and John A. Gamon
Parallel Seasonal Patterns of Photosynthesis, Fluorescence, and Reflectance Indices in Boreal Trees, Kyle R. Springer, Ran Wang, and John A. Gamon
An evaluation of emergent macrophytes and use among groups of aquatic taxa, Kristopher J. Stahr and Mark A. Kaemingk
Detecting spatial regimes in ecosystems, Shana M. Sundstrom, Tarsha Eason, R. John Nelson, David G. Angeler, Chris Barichievy, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Nicholas A.J. Graham, Dean Granholm, Lance Gunderson, Melinda Knutson, Kirsty L. Nash, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Craig A. Stow, and Craig R. Allen
A calibration-free, robust estimation of monthly land surface evapotranspiration rates for continental-scale hydrology, Jozsef Szilagyi
Partitioning assimilatory nitrogen uptake in streams: an analysis of stable isotope tracer additions across continents, J. L. Tank, E. Martí, T. Riis, D. von Schiller, A. J. Reisinger, W. K. Dodds, M. R. Whiles, L. R. Ashkenas, W. B. Bowden, S. M. Collins, C. L. Crenshaw, T. A. Crowl, N. A. Griffiths, N. B. Grimm, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, W. H. McDowell, B. M. Norman, E. J. Rosi, K. S. Simon, S. A. Thomas, and J. R. Webster
Tame circle actions, Susan Tolman and Jordan Watts
Review of Great Plains Geology by Robert F. Diffendal, Jon Trevelyan
Transcriptomic effects of dispersed oil in a non-model decapod crustacean, Hernan Vázquez-Miranda, Brent P. Thoma, Juliet M. Wong, Darryl L. Felder, Keith A. Crandall, and Heather D. Bracken-Grissom
The differential structure of an orbifold, Jordan Watts
Acoustic Characteristics of Lekking Male Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) Vocalizations (Supplement), Cara E. Whalen, Mary Bomberger Brown, JoAnn McGee, Larkin A. Powell, and Edward J. Walsh
Regeneration and invasion of cottonwood riparian forest following wildfire, Carissa L. Wonkka, Dirac L. Twidwell Jr., Christine H. Bielski, Craig R. Allen, and Michael C. Stambaugh
Nest Site Selection and Nest Survival of Eastern Wild Turkeys in a Pyric Landscape, Nathan A. Yeldell, Bradley S. Cohen, Andrew R. Little, Bret A. Collier, and Michael J. Chamberlain
Effects of climate change and anthropogenic modification on a disturbance-dependent species in a large riverine system, Sara L. Zeigler, Daniel H. Catlin, Mary Bomberger Brown, James D. Fraser, Lauren R. Dinan, Kelsi L. Hunt, Joel G. Jorgensen, and Sarah M. Karpanty
2016
Acute 𝛽-N-Methylamino-L-alanine Toxicity in a Mouse Model, Maitham Ahmed Al-Sammak, Douglas G. Rogers, and Kyle D. Hoagland
Data Descriptor: Remotely sensed high resolution irrigated area mapping in India for 2000 to 2015, Anukesh Krishnankutty Ambika, Brian D. Wardlow, and Vimal Mishra
Advanced Space Vehicle Design Taking into Account Multidisciplinary Couplings and Mixed Epistemic/Aleatory Uncertainties, Mathieu Balesdent, Loic Brevault, Nathaniel B. Price, Sebastien Defoort, Rodolphe Le Riche, Nam-Ho Kim, Raphael T. Haftka, and Nicolas Berend
Consequences of Hatch Phenology on Stages of Fish Recruitment, David M. Bogner, Mark A. Kaemingk, and Melissa R. Wuellner
Potential Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on a Shallow Natural Lake Fish Assemblage, Jason J. Breeggemann, Mark A. Kaemingk, Timothy J. DeBates, Craig P. Paukert, Jacob R. Krause, Alexander P. Letvin, Tanner M. Stevens, David W. Willis, and Steven R. Chipps
Fluctuating survival selection explains variation in avian group size, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Erin A. Roche, Valerie A. O'Brien, and Catherine E. Page
2016 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report for the Lower Platte River, Nebraska, Mary Bomberger Brown and Lauren R. Dinan
To exclose nests or not: structured decision making for the conservation of a threatened species, Jonathan B. Cohen, Anne Hecht, Kelly F. Robinson, Erik E. Osnas, Andrew Tyre, Christina Davis, Alison Kocek, Brooke Maslo, and Scott M. Melvin
Rescaling of the Complementary Relationship for Land Surface Evaporation, R. Crago, J. Szilagyi, R. Qualls, and J. Huntington
A spatiotemporal analysis of Midwest US temperature and precipitation trends during the growing season from 1980 to 2013, Shuwei Dai, Martha Shulski, Kenneth Hubbard, and Eugene S. Takle
A framework for understanding the characteristics of complexity in biology, Joseph Dauer and Jenny Dauer